Journal article
The Problem Of The Color Line: Spatial Access To Hospital Services For Minoritized Racial And Ethnic Groups
Health affairs (Millwood, Va.), v 41(2), 237
01 Feb 2022
PMID: 35130071
Featured in Collection : UN Sustainable Development Goals @ Drexel
Abstract
Examining how spatial access to health care varies across geography is key to documenting structural inequalities in the United States. In this article and the accompanying StoryMap, our team identified ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) with the largest share of minoritized racial and ethnic populations and measured distances to the nearest hospital offering emergency services, trauma care, obstetrics, outpatient surgery, intensive care, and cardiac care. In rural areas, ZCTAs with high Black or American Indian/Alaska Native representation were significantly farther from services than ZCTAs with high White representation. The opposite was true for urban ZCTAs, with high White ZCTAs being farther from most services. These patterns likely result from a combination of housing policies that restrict housing opportunities and federal health policies that are based on service provision rather than community need. The findings also illustrate the difficulty of using a single metric-distance-to investigate access to care on a national scale.
Metrics
Details
- Title
- The Problem Of The Color Line: Spatial Access To Hospital Services For Minoritized Racial And Ethnic Groups
- Creators
- Jan M. Eberth - University of South CarolinaPeiyin Hung - University of South CarolinaGabriel A. Benavidez - University of South CarolinaJanice C. Probst - University of South CarolinaWhitney E. Zahnd - University of IowaMary-Katherine Mcnatt - A.T. Still UniversityEbony Toussaint - University of South CarolinaMelinda A. Merrell - University of South CarolinaElizabeth Crouch - University of South CarolinaOyeleye J. Oyesode - University of South CarolinaNicholas Yell - University of South Carolina
- Publication Details
- Health affairs (Millwood, Va.), v 41(2), 237
- Publisher
- Project Hope
- Number of pages
- 10
- Grant note
- T32-GM081740 / National Institute of General Medical Sciences; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) U1CRH30539 / Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services National Network of Public Health Institutes Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholars Program
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000753635100011
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85124267445
- Other Identifier
- 991021855179004721
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
This publication has contributed to the advancement of the following goals:
InCites Highlights
Data related to this publication, from InCites Benchmarking & Analytics tool:
- Collaboration types
- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Health Care Sciences & Services
- Health Policy & Services